Combing machine



'LIWCLEGG.

COMBING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 3.12, 1920.

Ill/I11 Patented Jan. 3, 1922.

PATENT OFFICE- JAMES WILLIAM CLEGG, OF OLDHAM, ENGLAND.

COMBIN'G MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 12, 1920. Serial 'No. 358,290.

(GRANTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE ACT OF MARGH 3, 1921, 41 STAT. L,1313.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES WILLIAM CLEGG, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at Soho Iron Works, Oldham, in the county ofLancaster, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in CombingMachines, (for which he has obtained a patent in Great Britain,#116,061,

application filed February 27, 1918,) of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in combing machines of the Nasmithtype.

fHitherto it has been customary in ma chines of this type to supportthecylinder cover and the selvage guides from the sliver table. I

My present improvements consist essentially in mounting a bracket on orforming an extension of the stand or frame on each side'of the combingmachine and supporting the cylinder cover and selvage guides adjustably,therefrom.

I illustrate my invention by the accom-' panying drawing which is a sidesectional elevation of a combing machine of the Nasmith type fitted withmy improved arrangement for supporting and setting the cylinder coverand selvage guides.

In this view-a designates the comb cylcure one of the pair of selvageguides z, and i also the cylinder cover j.

The lower end ofthe cylinder cover j is shaped at 9" to fit and bearagainst the front Patented J an. 3, 1922.

of the beam 9 and near its upper end it is lents the selvage guides ican be adjusted on their supporting brackets h. a

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States is 1. In a combing machine having a rota- .table combcylinder, the combination of a frame for supporting said cylinder, abracket securedvto said frame adjacent to each. end of the cylinder, acylinder cover adjustably connected to each of said brackets, andselvage guides adjustably coni nected to said brackets.

2. In a combing machine, the combination of a frame, a cylinder mountedfor rotation in said frame, a bracket secured to said frame adjacent tothe end of said cylinder, a cylinder cover provided witha pair ofslotted projections, a bolt carried by each of said brackets and adaptedto engage the slot of one of said projections for adjustably securingsaid cover to said brackets,

and selvage guides adjustably connected to said brackets.

' In testimony whereof I have signed'my name to this specification.

JAMES WILLIAM CLEGG.

'Witnesses:

S. W. GILLETT, HERBERT ROWLAND ABBEY.

